‘The Negroes in Britain Industry’: Race-Relations Studies at Edinburgh University in the 1950s
In the 1940s, Britain was confronted with race in a way it had never been before: World War Two, fuelled by racial ideologies, started and came to an end; decolonisation was happening across British former colonies, with India’s independence in 1947 being especially reverberant in the metropolitan public; and the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Dox in Essex in the summer of 1948.
